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Changes to the way I post
July 25th, 2009So if you are a reader of my blog or a follower on Twitter – first off, Why ?? I never understand but once in a while I suppose there is a good post or two and its always nice to keep up with what a friend is up to.
Twitter is great for that and I am as addicted as I have always been to it but sometimes you need to offer multiple ways for people to keep in touch. Posterous, Facebook, My own blog, Twitter – they all reach different people.
So from now on ill be posting in all these places with a mix of my day to day and occasionally something useful I hope.
Paul
Me – Defined – A Spotfiy Meme
May 6th, 2009Well I thought id start a little meme, mainly to annoy people.
What I have done is created a playlist from Spotify of 6 songs that tell you all you need to know about who and what I am.
Heres whats in my playlist (SEOidiot – Defined)
The link to it on the excellent Sharemyplaylists site is here
Now id like to name the following people to do the same please: -
@kierondonoghue
@joannabutler
@alcarlton
@wendycwilliams
Twitter Brand Builder
May 4th, 2009I am happy to announce the launch of a free tool from SEOidiot, Twitter Brand Builder.
Its a basic version of a tool I use for clients in house that allows them to build followers and manage their Twitter accounts quickly and easily.
I am today giving away the free version to anyone who wants to use it on the understanding that it will be used responsibly.
I like Twitter and I have no interest in allowing people to abuse them, this tool however allows you to get your clients a head start in learning and building up their Twitter account so they get some quick wins.
I am requiring people to give me their email and contact details before you will be sent the scripts but enough with the lecture and lets get started on showing you what she does!
Twitter Brand Builder
The tool was designed as a way for the busy marketing department at a client to grow a following quickly and easily without having to throw all their resource at it and is designed to get you started… Having said that they overdid it a little and grew from 200 to over 14,000 followers in 6 weeks.
I think thats a little extreme but shows what it can do.
The basic idea is to allow the system to add the followers of people who follow you and then remove anyone who doesnt follow back.
When you upload the script here is what you will see
You have options then to manage your settings, good place to start.
Put in your Username and password (Dont panic they only get stored in an xml file on your server they arent sent to me)
You can also change the number of times the script queries the Twitter API if you need to (Twitter often lower this when they have peaks of traffic and we want to play nice)
Now each time you run Add more followers it will magically add around 100 people to your account.
After a week or so you may want to unfollow some of the people who dont follow back so we have an option for that too.
“But what if I have people I want to follow even if they dont follow me back?”
We thought of that too
By choosing the Manage Whitelist option from the homepage you can simply and easily maintain a list of people that you will continue to follow no matter what: -
Sound good?
All you have to do to get this FREE version of our tool is give me your email and I will send it over as quickly as I can.
Tool Withdrawn now sorry
Once you sign up I will send the tool with full and easy instructions on how to get started (Dont worry it takes about 2 minutes to get started!)
Please do not abuse this tool or I will withdraw it. We also have a more powerful tool in house for building and managing multiple accounts across defined interest areas and offer advice and training to clients and agencies wishing to use Twitter as part of your marketing mix or community strategy.
Thanks
Paul
Custom Twitter Avatars
March 29th, 2009I just changed my avatar to a new toon style one.
Here it is with a pic of me to compare…
** WARNING MAY INDUCE LAUGHTER ***
And here it is in Twitter
And here are a few more I have supplied people with: -
Joost
Rob Kerry
If you want one let me know and ill give you a price @seoidiot
Spotting fake followers on twitter isnt as easy as you think
March 28th, 2009Just read this post about how to spot people with fake follower counts on twitter.
Interesting article but as usual the boy scout brigade arent thinking it through.
Its not as easy as they make out, to illustrate that let me show you three graphs from twittercounter then ask you to guess which is faked…
I know these stats because I am in control of all three accounts here (and many more hehe)
OK now 1 of those is real… but its not necessarily the one you think…
About SEOidiot
Hi my name is Paul Madden and I am a UK SEO based in Lancashire, for years I have been cursed by the nickname SEOidiot which started life as a form of abuse from someone but you need to decide for yourself how accurate the term is.
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